Speaking Desires can be Dangerous: The Poetics of the UnconsciousISBN: 978-0-7456-1968-2
Paperback
208 pages
April 2000, Polity
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"Elizabeth Wright provides a "how-to" handbook on reading
literary texts through psychoanalytic theory. She carefully and
intelligently presents a compact description of a psychoanalytic
reading, defines "discourse", as well as the "clinical case". These
are the three core concepts for any understanding of a
psychoanalytic approach to literature and language. They are well
illustrated by insightful and comprehensible examples from
Shakespeare to the German expressionist Alfred Kubin and the
American writer Robert Coover and by examples from pyschoanalysts
Julia Kristeva, Joyce McDougall and Wilfred Bion. An indispensable
guide for student and critic alike." Sander Gilman
"With an acute eye Speaking Desires seamlessly weaves together psychoanalytic theory and literary criticism as only one equally at ease in both discourses can do." Psychoanalytic Studies